“At Manifest, though, there is a certain existential loneliness, a specifically sexual strain of angst, that did not lift once in the three days of the conference.”

Emily Eden travelled across northern India in the 1830s, sketching princes, warriors, hill communities and even animals.

ContextVault stores shared memories once and makes them reusable across your team.

sx 2.0 is out: a native app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that lets anyone share AI skills with their team, no git and no terminal required.

Startups and scaleups are on a hiring spree for a software engineering role pioneered by Palantir. A deepdive into this role, and why FDEs are so popular in 2025

An interactive, sourced breakdown of what the SFFA v. Harvard case revealed about elite college admissions: hooks, price, demographics, and merit.

Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so much as sneeze.
jj, an alternative to git, gets discussed…

OpenPLC, Arduino OPTA, CONTROLLINO, and Industrial Shields M-Duino bring IEC 61131-3 to low-cost microcontrollers used in real automation and industrial control system (ICS) security research....

How DoorDash built reliable food metadata at scale using AI, LLM jury, context-optimization agents, and distributed inference.

My keynote at ICML 2026

Track satellites in real-time on an interactive 3D map. See Starlink trains, space stations, rocket bodies, and satellite passes visible from your location.

In a real win for Earth Day, it has been reported that scientists in Japan have developed a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries

As my community modernized, we used Pennsylvania Dutch less and less. Now I'm trying to preserve it.

dumb human. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database with storage format native to handle graph relations. YouTrackDB supports Gremlin queries and ACID transactions. YTDB supports both embedd...

From 1 July 2026, energy retailers in NSW, South Australia, and South-East Queensland must give households at least three hours of free electricity every day. N

OpenAI is projecting $100 billion in ad revenue by 2030. Emarketer puts the ceiling for the entire chatbot ad market at just $5.41 billion.